20-07-2012, 08:42 PM
Keith - great commentary from you, and the hysterical sports-style commentator in the movie.
Symbolically, the film is 100% correct.
Stylistically, I'm suspicious.
I've watched hundreds of films of military and intelligence agency experimentation, and I can't think of another one that looks and feels quite like this. They tend to have a pseudo-scientific seriousness.
The sign "Ground Zero: Population 5", whilst one of the soldiers stands there in hands on hips nonchalance, feels more Monty Python than DoD.
Also, the light doesn't match in the explosion shots and the subsequent ground shots, even allowing for the high altitude explosion, and the editing style is quite modern.
I'd really like to know more about the purported origin of this film.
However, once again, crimes like this did happen on a regular basis, and the US military regarded its warriors as human guinea pigs for everything from LSD to radiation testing.
Symbolically, the film is 100% correct.
Stylistically, I'm suspicious.
I've watched hundreds of films of military and intelligence agency experimentation, and I can't think of another one that looks and feels quite like this. They tend to have a pseudo-scientific seriousness.
The sign "Ground Zero: Population 5", whilst one of the soldiers stands there in hands on hips nonchalance, feels more Monty Python than DoD.
Also, the light doesn't match in the explosion shots and the subsequent ground shots, even allowing for the high altitude explosion, and the editing style is quite modern.
I'd really like to know more about the purported origin of this film.
However, once again, crimes like this did happen on a regular basis, and the US military regarded its warriors as human guinea pigs for everything from LSD to radiation testing.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war